Q
: Sweet Mother, when we concentrate on one of your
photos - there are many photos, each one with a
different expression - does it make a difference
for us, the one on which we concentrate?

If you do it
purposely, yes, of course. If you choose this photo
for a particular reason or that other one for another
reason, surely. It has an effect. It is as though
you were choosing to concentrate on one aspect
of the Mother rather than another; for example,
if you choose to concentrate on Mahakali or Mahalakshmi
or on Maheshwari, the results will be different.
That part of you which answers to these qualities
will awaken and become receptive. So, it is the
same thing. But somebody who has only one photo,
whichever it may be, and concentrates, without
choosing this one or that, because he has only
one, then it is of no importance which one it is.
For the fact of concentrating on the photograph
puts one in contact with the Force, and that is
what is necessary in the case of everyone who responds
automatically.

The Mother
(Collected Works Vol 7)

In the eternity of becoming, each Avatar is only the announcer, the forerunner of a more perfect realisation. And yet men have always the tendency to deify the Avatar of the past in opposition to the Avatar of the future. Now again Sri Aurobindo has come announcing to the world the realisation of tomorrow; and again his message meets with the same opposition as of all those who preceded him. But tomorrow will prove the truth of what he revealed and his work will be done.

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How can I make Sri Aurobindo's influence living and dynamic in my daily activities?

Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.

The Mother July 1970

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